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ContractRadar vs Gov Contract Finder
Of everything on this comparison page, Gov Contract Finder is the closest to what we do — an AI-assisted contract search tool aimed at small businesses rather than enterprise capture teams. The two real differences are what each one indexes and whether you can see the price. Here’s an honest side-by-side.
Last updated 2026-08-11. Gov Contract Finder does not publish prices; tier contents below come from its own pricing page. Verify directly on govcontractfinder.com before purchasing.
At a glance
| ContractRadar | Gov Contract Finder | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $30/month flat ($360/year), published | Not published — “current plan details available by demo” |
| Free tier | Yes — permanent, 5 searches/day, no credit card | None — described as “private paid software” |
| Data sources | 289 sources — SAM.gov, SBA SubNet, 49 state portals, plus 136 cities and 133 counties (including a statewide PA local network) | Federal only — SAM.gov, USAspending.gov, and FPDS, updated daily |
| State / local coverage | 49 states + 136 cities + 133 counties, all on one plan | None |
| Search volume | 5/day on Free; unlimited on Pro | 5/day on Professional; 500/day on Max |
| Alerts | Daily AI-scored email digest (Pro) | Email notifications listed on the Max tier |
| AI features | Semantic embedding search + AI fit scoring on every match | AI bidding assistant and AI capability-statement writer (Max) |
| Proposal help | No — discovery and tracking only | Yes — bid analysis and capability-statement drafting |
| Best for | Small businesses bidding federal, state, and local who want a published price | Federal-only bidders who want AI proposal assistance and will book a demo for pricing |
Where Gov Contract Finder wins
Comparison pages are only useful if they’re honest. Gov Contract Finder does several things we deliberately don’t:
- It helps you write the bid, not just find it. An AI bidding assistant and an AI capability-statement writer are part of the product. ContractRadar stops at discovery and tracking — we don’t draft proposals, and if that is the help you actually need, this is a real gap in our favour of theirs.
- Deeper federal data plumbing. Alongside SAM.gov it pulls USAspending.gov and FPDS directly. We surface USAspending award history on federal matches when comparable awards exist, but we don’t expose FPDS procurement data as a browsable dataset.
- Procurement officer lookup. Searching the contracting officer behind a solicitation is a native feature. We show the points of contact published on the posting itself and nothing beyond that.
- Browser extension and mobile apps. Chrome and Firefox extensions plus iOS and Android apps. ContractRadar is a responsive web app — it works on a phone browser, but there is no native app to install.
Where ContractRadar wins
- State and local work, which they don’t index at all. Gov Contract Finder is a federal platform. For a small trades business, the county repaving contract and the city facilities RFP are often the realistic wins — and those never appear in a SAM.gov-only index. We monitor 49 state portals plus 136 cities and 133 counties alongside the federal sources.
- You can see the price without booking a demo. $30/month, on the pricing page, cancel any time. Buying a tool for a two-person business shouldn’t require a sales call to find out what it costs.
- A permanent free tier, not a trial. 5 semantic searches per day with full contract details and points of contact, no credit card, no expiry. Their entry tier is also 5 searches a day — ours is the free one.
- Daily alerts on the base paid plan. Email notifications appear on Gov Contract Finder’s higher Max tier. Our daily AI-scored digest is included in the single $30/month Pro plan — there is no higher tier to climb to.
- Semantic matching across every source at once. Describe your work in plain language and the AI matches by meaning across federal, state, and local postings together — so a “custodial services” county contract reaches a janitorial firm that searched for cleaning.
When to pick Gov Contract Finder instead of ContractRadar
Pick Gov Contract Finder if you bid federal work only and the hard part for you is the paperwork rather than the search. Its AI bid analysis and capability-statement writer address a real problem that we don’t touch, and the FPDS and USAspending integration gives a federal bidder more raw data to research an agency with. If you have never bid outside SAM.gov and don’t plan to, the state and local coverage you would gain from us is worth nothing to you — and proposal help might be worth a lot.
When to pick ContractRadar
Pick ContractRadar if any part of your work is state, county, or city — or if you want to evaluate a tool before speaking to anyone. $30/month flat covers SAM.gov and SBA SubNet plus 49 states, 136 cities, and 133 counties in one AI-scored daily digest, with bid tracking to follow each contract from Interested through to Won. The permanent free tier means you can check whether our matching actually surfaces relevant work for your trade before spending anything.
FAQ
How much does Gov Contract Finder cost?
Gov Contract Finder does not publish prices. Its pricing page lists two tiers — Professional and Max — with feature breakdowns but no dollar figures, stating that current plan details are available by demo. Third-party listings from earlier in 2026 quoted monthly figures, but those no longer match what the vendor shows, so book the demo rather than trusting a secondhand number. ContractRadar publishes its price: $30/month, or $0 on the permanent free tier.
Does Gov Contract Finder have a free tier?
No. Its pricing page states plainly that Gov Contract Finder is private paid software, and no free plan or self-serve trial is offered — access starts with a demo. ContractRadar's free tier is permanent rather than a trial: 5 semantic searches per day, full contract details and points of contact, no credit card and no time limit.
Does Gov Contract Finder cover state and local contracts?
No — it is a federal platform. Its own documentation lists SAM.gov for opportunities, USAspending.gov for award history, and FPDS for procurement data, all updated daily. That is a solid federal stack, but it means state, county, and city solicitations are outside it entirely. ContractRadar monitors 289 sources: SAM.gov and SBA SubNet on the federal side, plus 49 state portals and 136 cities and 133 counties. For many small businesses, state and local work is the larger share of revenue.
Which is better for a small business?
It depends on what you bid and what you need help with. If you are federal-only and want AI help writing the bid — Gov Contract Finder includes an AI bidding assistant and a capability-statement writer — it is aimed squarely at you. If your work includes state, county, or city contracts, or you want to see a price before talking to sales, ContractRadar is the better fit. The two also differ on where alerting sits: ContractRadar includes daily email alerts in its single $30/month plan, while Gov Contract Finder lists email notifications on its higher Max tier.
Can I use both?
Yes. They overlap on federal discovery but not much else. A federal-heavy bidder who wants proposal-writing assistance could reasonably run Gov Contract Finder for that and use ContractRadar's daily digest to catch the state and local work its federal-only index does not cover.